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  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... them equally endearing, and it would It's Chandler be unfair to judge ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  you can play it in response to an opponent's spell to prevent them from ... paying mana, the normal currency used to cast cards, you can instead pay ... , what its like here. i want to convince him to apply. i want to comfort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  , and if you don’t understand how to use a tool, for instance, you can be ... managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern ... developers, and it’s really interesting to learn about best practices from code

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  -as-utility: I can Uber my friend home, use Google Translate to have a real and ... item. I was determined not to use Google Translate, in part because my ... found the place on Google Maps and handed it to him. He rotated the phone

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  , I can acknowledge the storm for what it has done to reform the ... less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... sense. It's also important to show, not tell, which may not be so obvious

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  even that, Caltech seemed to use its seal with the torch in it. No, not ... historical source, given what it looks like today. But in fact, it used to be ... what was useful, but it was really important to tell the story of how we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... Dr. Who to Magic: The Gathering, it's all here. We also stopped ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  pronoun, as if it’s been said so many times that we found a need to shorten ... ”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated ... this to love, in that a loved one can be a source of rest, but at this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  ) flexible 2) easily maintainable and 3) relatively quick to implement. It was ... months, it felt really cool to have the tools to understand and analyze key ... goal. For example, the Google search engine uses distributed technologies

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... just want to make the most of it," she said. To hear the displaced students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including ... Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  choice anyway, because it was exactly what I really wanted but was not confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit ... world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  like I do to East Campus. I can't do it. I think I've been going with my ... 10pm sunday. Looks like it's back to IAP as usual for me, I can't say I ... it I try not to walk around New Haven with an expensive camera slinging

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current ... What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  patients to lists of symptoms: that it is necessary to use a combination of ... figure out whether you love doing something is to do it. This can mean ... sum: there’s no excuse for not talking to people, and it can even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ? After some googling, it seems that the construction of the two is ... to salty and sweet foods that, after not being exposed to it for a ... snow day of the spring semester. It took me a while to finish this post

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  to do anything in MIT, you can get funding for it. Alan: So we decided ... post.)"]here we go again.[/annotation] CJ: Why does it have to be "oh ... without bcc’ing, meaning that anyone can reply-all to the email. Since these

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  is dampen it. To catch someone who is falling over, you can't just ... ’t careful, and it will wear you down even if you are. The best we can do is to ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  transporting someone from point A to B very quickly. But I'm going to do it with ... in order to do that, I have to teach you quantum mechanics. It'll just ... information through conventional methods, like radio or light, to point B, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  these classes), and you can hopefully understand why I was so excited to ... lecturers sometimes can't explain everything they would like to. If you don ... homework; you won't be given any time to do it during lecture - and trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008